* 6. 912 Introduction to Copyright Law taught by Keith Winstein, MIT OpenCourseWare January IAP 2006

* MIT OpenCourseWare 6. 912 Introduction to Copyright Law Free self-study course with video lectures as offered during the January 2006, Independent Activities Period ( IAP )

* MIT OpenCourseWare in-depth look at Electrical Engineering-online courses with video lectures.

* Toward the Scientific Revolution From MIT OpenCourseWare, class materials for the history of science up to and including Isaac Newton.

MIT OpenCourseWare, for example, is under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License.

Several major computer-related organizations have originated at MIT since the 1980s: Richard Stallman's GNU Project and the subsequent Free Software Foundation were founded in the mid-1980s at the AI Lab ; the MIT Media Lab was founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte and Jerome Wiesner to promote research into novel uses of computer technology ; the World Wide Web Consortium standards organization was founded at the Laboratory for Computer Science in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee ; the OpenCourseWare project has made course materials for over 2, 000 MIT classes available online free of charge since 2002 ; and the One Laptop per Child initiative to expand computer education and connectivity to children worldwide was launched in 2005.

In 2001, inspired by the open source and open access movements, MIT launched OpenCourseWare to make the lecture notes, problem sets, syllabuses, exams, and lectures from the great majority of its courses available online for no charge, though without any formal accreditation for coursework completed.

* MIT. edu, OpenCourseWare: Organic Chemistry I

* MIT OpenCourseWare: Organometallic Chemistry

* MIT OpenCourseWare 8. 03: Vibrations and Waves Free, independent study course with video lectures, assignments, lecture notes and exams.

* MIT Linear Algebra Lecture on Image Compression at Google Video, from MIT OpenCourseWare ( not available right now )

* GEB video lectures, MIT OpenCourseWare

* MIT OpenCourseWare HST. 512 Genomic Medicine A free, self-study course in genomic medicine.

*, MIT Linear Algebra Lecture on the Four Fundamental Subspaces at Google Video, from MIT OpenCourseWare

MIT OpenCourseWare ( MIT OCW ) is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) to put all of the educational materials from its undergraduate-and graduate-level courses online, partly free and openly available to anyone, anywhere.

Currently, MIT OpenCourseWare is supported by MIT, corporate underwriting, major gifts, and donations from site visitors.

Just over the Longfellow Bridge from Boston, at the eastern end of the MIT campus, it is served by the Kendall / MIT station on the MBTA Red Line subway.

* MIT Campus ( Area 2 ) is bordered on the north by Broadway, on the south and east by the Charles River, and on the west by the Grand Junction Railroad tracks.

CLU is a programming language created at MIT by Barbara Liskov and her students between 1974 and 1975.

There is also an initiative started by the OLPC foundation, a group out of MIT Media Lab and supported by several major corporations to develop a $ 100 laptop to deliver educational software.

Furthermore, it has been seen that, in MIT, individuals with small lesions in the left hemisphere seem to recover by activation of the left hemisphere perilesional cortex, while, in individuals with larger left-hemisphere lesions, there is a recruitment of the use of language-capable regions in the right hemisphere.

The effect is named for the 1966 chatterbot ELIZA, developed by MIT computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum.

* The Terrafugia Transition is under development by a private company founded by MIT graduates.

He was especially loved by MIT students for his willingness to teach and his kindness: " The trick to education ," he said, " is to teach people in such a way that they don't realize they're learning until it's too late.

At MIT, the Edgerton Center, founded in 1992, is a hands-on laboratory resource for undergraduate and graduate students, and also conducts educational outreach programs for high school students and teachers.

The film is based on Ben Mezrich's best seller, Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions, a story of student MIT card-counters who used mathematical probability to aid them in card games such as blackjack.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also known as MIT, is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

Still, as late as 1949, the Lewis Committee lamented in its report on the state of education at MIT that " the Institute is widely conceived as basically a vocational school ", a " partly unjustified " perception the committee sought to change.

The bridge closest to MIT is the Harvard Bridge, which is known for being marked off in a non-standard unit of length – the smoot.

The prominence of the reactor's containment building in a densely populated area has been controversial, but MIT maintains that it is well-secured.

Because housing assignments are made based on the preferences of the students themselves, diverse social atmospheres can be sustained in different living groups ; for example, according to the Yale Daily News Staff's The Insider's Guide to the Colleges, 2010, " The split between East Campus and West Campus is a significant characteristic of MIT.

MIT is chartered as a non-profit organization and is owned and governed by a privately appointed board of trustees known as the MIT Corporation.

The mass-market magazine Technology Review is published by MIT through a subsidiary company, as is a special edition that also serves as an alumni magazine.

The publishing process is described by MIT as a " large-scale digital publishing infrastructure consists of planning tools, a content management system ( CMS ), and the MIT OpenCourseWare content distribution infrastructure ".

On 10-August-2011 researchers at MIT announced the publication of a new method of inhibiting NA, the process selectively affected infected cells.

In 2005, MIT OpenCourseWare and other leading open educational resources projects formed the OpenCourseWare Consortium, which seeks to extend the reach and impact of open course materials, foster new open course materials and develop sustainable models for open course material publication.

* MIT homepage of Jerome H. Saltzer featuring publication list, working papers, biography, etc.

* MIT homepage of David D. Clark featuring publication list, working papers, biography, etc.

In the past, a mere 5 % of all submissions were accepted for publication in the UC Irvine and MIT journals.

With the publication of his post-graduate thesis at MIT in 1971 ( which included a description of " floating exchanges ") and the Nixon Shock of that same year which eradicated the Bretton Woods system by unhinging the US dollar value from its gold standard and inaugurated the new era of universal floating exchanges ( previous to that time the only " floating exchanges " involved some exotic currencies in Latin America ), the fledgling management consultant suddenly found himself to be at the center of the financial world's attention.

In the wake of the 1993 controversy, Counterpoint, a joint MIT-Wellesley student publication, asked MIT student Avik Roy to write a " retrospective chronicling the controversy surrounding Martin since his arrival as associate professor in 1973.

In July 2005, Pontin announced a $ 20, 000 prize, funded 50 / 50 by Methuselah Foundation and MIT Technology Review, open to any molecular biologist, with a record of publication in biogerontology, who could prove that the alleged benefits of SENS were " so wrong that it is unworthy of learned debate.

In 1852, he announced the publication of “ a work … on the glories and wonders of the universe, in map form .” In 1882 The Tech — MIT ’ s student newspaper — gave this description of Pratt ’ s work:

Printed copies are distributed throughout the MIT campus on the morning of publication.

He became famous in 1949 with the publication of his book Giant Brains, or Machines That Think in which he described the principles behind computing machines ( called then " mechanical brains ", " sequence-controlled calculators ", or various other terms ), and then gave a technical but accessible survey of the most prominent examples of the time, including machines from MIT, Harvard, the Moore School, Bell Laboratories, and elsewhere.